Animals across the natural world rely on a limited number of combat strategies when facing rivals or threats. Researchers have identified four primary combat styles that appear repeatedly across ...

Bill shape affects how efficiently a hummingbird feeds and how it competes with other hummingbirds. Because of humans, they ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

F lat-headed cats have been successfully detected and filmed in southern Thailand for the first time in almost 30 years. One ...

From water-skipping robots to elephant-skin inspired cooling materials, engineers have continued to find inspiration in ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

Evolution is slow, but with the right experimental set-up—and enough time to spare—you can watch nature do its methodical ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...